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“Bill Kristol, who was a paid contributor to Fox News until 2012 and is a prominent Never Trumper, said of the network, ‘It’s changed a lot. Before, it was conservative, but it wasn’t crazy. Now it’s just propaganda.’ 

“Joe Peyronnin, a professor of journalism at N.Y.U., was an early president of Fox News, in the mid-nineties. ‘I’ve never seen anything like it before,’ he says of Fox. ‘It’s as if the President had his own press organization. It’s not healthy.’” 

—Jane Mayer, staff writer, “The Making of the Fox News White House,” The New Yorker, Feb. 3, 2019.

• Editorial Comment: Fair and unbalanced.

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